Amusing and interesting New York Times article profiling the leading criminal defense attorney in Iraq.
His client list is packed with accused killers, kidnappers, con artists and thieves, men caught driving around with rocket-propelled grenades and others charged with attacking American soldiers.
His work is going to court and mincing the government's cases.
Fuaad Ahmed al-Jawary, attorney at law, has become the Johnnie Cochran of the insurgency, and as the resistance continues, his criminal defense practice has soared.
An example of his courtroom style:
The victim was a boy on his way to feed a donkey and was cut down in a shootout between two families fighting over a woman.
Mr. Jawary conferred first with the woman, one of the suspects in the case.
"Just relax," he told her.
Then he turned to his other client, the one with the shiny specs.
"He looks smart, huh?" Mr. Jawary whispered, after speaking with him. "The glasses were my idea."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/internat.../01LAWY.html?hp
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